Marak, Texas

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

• 1885 USGS Taylor quadrangle1:125000
• 1887 USGS Taylor quadrangle1:125000
• 1894 USGS Taylor quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
• 1954 USGS Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1963 USGS Yarrelton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1985 USGS Taylor quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Marak between 2006 and 2020, burning about 430 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• North Elm
• Yarrelton
• Buckholts
• Pettibone
• Quinif
• South Elm

Every fire recorded in Milam County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380139. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.